Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to overcome adversity and maintain a positive, healthy perspective on life.
Based on data obtained from a United States National Survey of Black Americans, the book first discusses psychological and sociological factors affecting life satisfaction. Contributors then explore how these psychosocial factors contribute to such health problems as alcoholism and hypertension. The volume concludes with an examination of strategies Black Americans use in their attempt to solve life problems. These include: prayer; avoidance; active problem-solving; and seeking help from family, community
Table of Contents
Mental health in Black America / Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Jackson -- A model-free approach to the study of subjective well-being / Carolyn Benett Murray and M. Jean Peacock -- Stress and residential well-being / Gayle Y. Phillips -- Problem drinking, chronic disease, and recent life events / Isidore Obot -- An analysis of stress denial / Rhoda Barge Johnson and Joan E. Crowley -- Marital status and mental health / Diane Brown -- The association between anger-hostility and hypertension / Ernest Johnson and Larry Gant -- Coping with personal problems / Clifford L. Broman -- Kin and nonkin as sources of informal assistance / Robert J. Taylor, Cheryl Burns Hardison, and Linda M. Chatters -- Predisposing, enabling, and need factors related to patterns of help-seeking among African American women / Cleopatra H. Caldwell -- Mental health symptoms and service utilization patterns of helf-seeking among African American women / Vicki Mays, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, and James S. Jackson -- The police : a reluctant social service agency in the African American communities / Patricia A. Washington -- Changes in African American resources and mental health : 1979 to 1992 / James S. Jackson and Harold W. Neighbors.